Floating chair



Sept, 29, 1925.

'T. LA FARINA FLOATING CHAIR Filed Feb. 25, 1925 INVENTOR BY rfzo nasbFarilm ATTORNEY E Patented Sept. 29, 1925.

UNITED STATES THOMAS LA FARINA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FLOATING CHAIR.

Application filed February 25, 1925.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS LA FARINA, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FloatingChairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a float intended more particularly for us: bybathers, the invention having for an object the provision of a novelfloat of this kind on which the bather can rest comfortably in a sittingposture, and with his body partially submerged, a further object of theinvention rfilating to the making of the float collaps- 1 e.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawing, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawing is a plan View of my improved float.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view taken on the line 22 ofFig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In constructing my improved float I provide a length of rubber tubing 10that is arranged in U-shape as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. Upon thelegs of this tubing I mount a .pair of frame or bracing members 11 thatare here in the form of boards consisting of two sections 11 and 11hinged to'one another as at 12. These members 11 are secured upon thelegs of the tubing 10 by suitable means, preferably the straps 14: whichar fixed to the said members and passed around the tube and providedwith ordinary buckles 15 whereby they may be detachably engaged with thesaid tube 10, there being a pair of these straps for each leg of thetube to engage the said legs ncar opposite ends of the latter.

Fixed at their upper ends to each board are two rods 18 that are spacedalong the boards. These rods depend from the said boards, within theconfines of the tube 10, and are attached at their lower ends to theside frame bars 19 of a seat that is thereby supported by the float,this seat comprising a number of slats 20 secured on the top SeriaI No.11,412.

faces of the said bars. To connect the rods 18 to the boards 11 theirupper ends are laterally offset as at 18 and extend upward throughborings in the said boards and through registering borings in the bottombars of skeleton bracing members 21 of segmental form that serve both ashandles and to retain the two sections of each board in extendedposition. The said upper ends of the rods 18 have nuts, 22 screwedthereon, these nuts serving both to attach the rods to the said boardsand to clamp the segmental members 21 thereon, the laterally turnedportions of the rods forming shoulders acting in opposition to the nuts22. The valve 28 for inflation of the tube maybe conveniently projectedupward through apertures formed in one of the boards and th adjacentmember 21.

The seat is provided with a back consisting of a pair of side bars 25that are hinged at their lower ends to a crossbar 26 fixed to andextending between the rear ends of the seat bars'19, these back barshaving the cross slats '27 securcd thereto. The back element is retainedin the desired erect position by means of a rod 28 that extendstransversely through the side bars of the back and has its endsprojecting over the boards 11.

As will be apparent from the above description, I have provided floatfor a bather ,on which the latter may comfortably rest with his bodysubmerged. When the float is not used it may be readily taken apart andfolded to compact form. In taking the float apart, the nuts 22 areunscrewed, both freeing the handles 21 and the seat from the boards 11.The tube 10 is deflated and removed from the boards, and two sections ofthe latter may be folded upon one another, while the back of the seatmay be folded down.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent of the United States .is as fol lows:

1. A float comprising a flexible airtight tubing arranged to presentside legs, a pair of boards attached to said tubing and extending alongthe said legs, and a seat attached to and depending from the saidboards, said seat being removably attached to said boards and saidboards being divided midway between their ends into two sections hingedto one another.

boards, said seat being removably attached to said boards and saidboards being divided midway between their ends into two sections hingedto one another, and a removable handle element extended along saidboards above the said hinge points and secured at opposite ends torespective sections of the boards to retain the latter in extendedposition.

3. A float comprising a flexible airtight tubing arranged to presentside legs, pair of boards extending along and resting upon therespective legs of the said tubing, said boards being made up of twosections hinged to one another, a handle-forming frame ex-,

tending along the said boards over the hinge joints thereof andretaining the said boards extended, a seat positioned between the saidlegs of the tubing, rods supporting said seat, said rods passingupwardly through registering apertures in the said boards and the saidframes, and having nuts screwed on their ends and serving to secure therods and the said frame to the said boards, and means detachablysecuring the said tubing to the said boards.

4. A float comprising a flexible airtight tubing arranged to presentside legs, pair of boards extending along and resting upon therespective legs of the said tubing, said boards being made up of twosections hinged to one another, a handle-forming frame extending alongthe said boards over the hinge joints thereof and retaining the saidboards extended, a seat positioned between the said legs of the tubing,rods supporting said seat, said rods passing upwardly throughregisteringapertures in the said boards and the said frames, and havingnuts screwed on their ends. and serving to secure the rods and the saidframe to the said boards, and means detachably securing the said tubingto the said boards, comprising straps attached to the boards andencircling the said tubing.

5. A float comprising a flexible airtight tubing arranged to presentside legs, pair of boards extending along and resting upon therespective legs of the said tubing, said boards being made up of twosections hinged to one another, a handle-forming frame extending alongthe said boards over the hinge joints thereof and retaining the saidboards extended, a seat positioned between the said legs of the tubing,rods supporting said seat, said rods passing upwardly throughregistering apertures in the said boards and the said frames, and havingnuts screwed on their ends and serving to secure the rods .and the saidframe to the said boards, and means detachably securing the saidtubingto the said boards, said seat being formed with a hinged back, and atransverse rod attached tosaid back and removably engaged at its endswith the said boards to retain the said back in upright position.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

THOS. LA FARINA.

